trounce

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To thrash; beat.

transitive v. To defeat decisively.

intransitive v. To censure something or someone forcefully: "I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance” ( Robert Maxwell Stern).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily

v. to punish

v. to beat severely; thrash

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

transitive v. To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

The last thing the landlady heard him say, as she closed the street door after him, was, that he was off now, to "trounce" the two Tidbury watchmen, for not stopping the robbery -- to "trounce them handsomely," as sure as his name was Matthew Colebatchl